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SUMMARY:A Postcolonial Rethinking of the State and Nation: From Comparativ
 e to Connected Sociologies - Professor Gurminder Bhambra\, University of E
 ssex
DTSTART:20180130T123000Z
DTEND:20180130T140000Z
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CONTACT:Odette Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Discussions of the nation-state are generally based on the pre
 sumption of its emergence as a ‘pure-type’ in Europe and to be underst
 ood in modified\, culturally inflected terms elsewhere. However\, what sch
 olars rarely take into consideration is that the ‘pure-type’ of the na
 tion-state was actually\, empirically\, an imperial state with more expans
 ive boundaries and polities. In this paper\, I take issue with the concept
 ual apparatus and methodological prescriptions of comparative historical s
 ociology and reconsider social scientific accounts of the emergence of the
  nation-state within the connected histories of colonialism and empire. Th
 e failure to recognize prior global connections\, or to regard them as sub
 stantively significant for the development of our concepts and categories\
 , is bound up\, I argue\, with an elision of colonialism and empire as con
 stitutive aspects in the development of the social sciences and\, as such\
 , limits the explanatory value of concepts in terms of their ability to ac
 count for present predicaments. \n\n
LOCATION:Room B\, 1st Floor\, 17 Mill Lane
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